raptor lake Gigabyte Announces Instant 6GHz Mode for Core i9-13900k on its Z790 Motherboards + Core i9-13900KF overclocked to 6.2GHz with an AIO cooler

[BiG StroOnZ]

Summary

Gigabyte today announced the Instant 6GHz technology exclusively designed for the Intel Core i9-13900K processor. By simply updating to the latest BIOS on Gigabyte's Z790 motherboards and activating settings, users can boost the performance of Intel Core i9-13900K to 6GHz. Also, Intel's new Core i9-13900KF 'Raptor Lake' CPU was pushed to 6.2GHz with a Corsair iCUE H150i RGB Elite AIO cooler and a Thermal Grizzly CPU contact frame.

 

Gigabyte 6GHz Technology:

 

 

13900KF @ 6.2GHz:

 

 

 

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Using GIGABYTE's latest Instant 6 GHz technology, the system can automatically tweak CPU voltage and Vcore Load Line Calibration to detect the most two optimized cores running at 6 GHz frequency. Instead of suffering from complex O.C settings, users can enjoy effortless Overclocking by simply updating the latest BIOS on GIGABYTE's Z790 motherboards and activating the Instant 6 GHz option in the BIOS. This further delivers a 3% performance boost on one single core. The BIOS support Instant 6 GHz technology of Z790 motherboards has been updated on the GIGABYTE official website, users can upgrade BIOS with Q-Flash or Q-Flash Plus.

 

OCN member "Codiee1337" managed to get hands-on with Intel's new Core i9-13900KF early, installing it into an ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Apex motherboard and its on-board AI tune feature, the 6.2GHz single-core overclock on the Core i9-13900KF was easy to achieve. The overclocker was cooling the Intel Core i9-13900KF processor with a Corsair iCUE H150i RGB Elite AIO cooler, along with the Thermal Grizzly CPU contact frame. Alongside that was some G.SKILL DDR5-6000 CL36 memory, with some benchmarks performed in both Cinebench R23 and 3DMark. 

 

My thoughts

These are two pretty impressive stories for the 13900k and 13900KF. Both are using an "auto-overclocking" type feature. The Gigabyte feature can be enabled with a simple BIOS update and it also appears that the 13900KF result on the ASUS motherboard is using a similar type feature. I imagine this means manually tuning will provide better results and at lower voltages. The Gigabyte 6GHz mode on the 13900k was stable enough to run Cinebench, as was the 13900KF @ 6.2GHz. Cooling on the 6GHz Gigabyte mode is not mentioned, but on the 6.2GHz run it was using an AIO CLC with a contact frame. Temps seem pretty good at those voltages and clocks. Meaning the 6GHz mode shouldn't be too hard to run if the 6.2GHz run is anything to go by. From what I can tell, with the 13900KF run, it was not throttling as its max temp was 90C.

 

Sources

https://www.techpowerup.com/300137/gigabyte-announces-instant-6-ghz-mode-for-the-intel-core-i9-13900k-on-its-z790-motherboards

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/89026/intel-core-i9-13900kf-overclocked-to-6-2ghz-with-an-aio-cooler/index.html

[OhioYJ]

So I normally buy either MSI or Gigabyte motherboards, and was actually "shopping" for a Z790 motherboard today. I noticed I can't get an MSI or Gigabyte DDR5 board. MSI boards are at least listed, but I don't think any (that I was looking at) were out yet. I didn't see any Gigabyte at all in any of my results. So while Gigabyte is listing boards, and I've seen some articles, when are these boards actually going to be out?

 

The only one with boards that you can actually buy is Asus, so I decided to wait.

[dizmo]

Fancy. I guess.

 

The real question for me: How many more fps's does it add?

[Shimejii]

I dont see a point in doing this if it causes ANY instability. Just running a cinnebench run isnt enough. Could be one of those "Buttons for OC for shits and giggles" Then turn it off for normal use as out of the box that chip is already toasty af. 13900k+4090 = 700W heater for the room, dont need much more then that in a small room for the winter  honestly in a properly sealed and insulated house! 

[Quackers101]

"why do you have 2 GPUs in your system?"

"oh that?... that is just my CPU with an GPU cooler".

[williamcll]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

Fancy. I guess.

 

The real question for me: How many more fps's does it add?

Depends on your card. 4090 bottlenecks a lot of CPU so you could probably squeeze out 10 more frames a second at 4K

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

Fancy. I guess.

 

The real question for me: How many more fps's does it add?

It's a must have for those brutal long cold Canadian winters. /s

[GhostRoadieBL]

1 hour ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It's a must have for those brutal long cold Canadian winters. /s

You laugh but I usually run airvents from my window to the pc in the winter. There's bios settings for winter and summer on my system.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

15 hours ago, GhostRoadieBL said:

You laugh but I usually run airvents from my window to the pc in the winter. There's bios settings for winter and summer on my system.

Actually, not a bad idea. It's like one of those portal air conditioners. The PC is now a portable space heater. 

[GhostRoadieBL]

9 hours ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

Actually, not a bad idea. It's like one of those portal air conditioners. The PC is now a portable space heater. 

I'll probably swap to the grow tent Alex used so it's fully isolated